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Indeed, however the case in point is the Chernobyl disaster, and in the USSR there AFAIK were no profits/shareholders/CEOs...

My point is that such scam isn't specific to the degraded version of capitalism so common in our nations, which is in fact "crony capitalism".

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I always found the tribalistic "crony capitalism" vs "crony socialism" debate to be a convenient escape from actually discussing the removal of cronyism.

So often true!

We patently cannot tackle cronyism thanks to any powerful institution. In fact anything powerful nurtures it.

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